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What is the address space of a computer with a 64-bit address bus?

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In principle, a 64-bit microprocessor can address 16 EiB (16 × 10246 = 264 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes, or about 18.4 exabytes) of memory. However, not all instruction sets, and not all processors implementing those instruction sets, support a full 64-bit virtual or physical address space.

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